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Spiral maps.

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Besides drawing, you can create a lot of modifications. Here are some:
1) You can draw not only on land but also on water. Unfortunately, this reduces the map's traversability. Water becomes an additional obstacle, and not everyone has boats.
2) You can draw a path that is two or more cells wide, instead of just one. This sharply increases the enemy's activity; they start "running around" more readily. The game's pace increases, and they stop simply sitting in their castle and accumulating troops.
3) You can draw not just one spiral path, but two (or more) in parallel. Unfortunately, this sharply increases the difficulty of drawing the map, as you have to gather more information.
4) You can draw not just one spiral on the map, but several, with different arrangements.
5) You can draw not spirals at all, but other geometric shapes. The most natural would be squares and rectangles. This greatly simplifies the map creation process. Unfortunately, this also reduces the aesthetic appeal, and the game becomes less interesting. The unnecessary nature of "corners" in the game becomes obvious.

And so on. There can be many modifications. They can be combined.